Metropolitan Community College (Omaha)
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MCC |
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| Type | Community college |
| Location | Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Website | mccneb |
Metropolitan Community College, also known as Metro and formerly known as Metropolitan Technical Community College" , is an American institution of higher learning based in Omaha, Nebraska. The public college is located on multiple campuses throughout the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area.
Metropolitan Community College ("MCC") serves residents of Dodge, Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties in Nebraska. Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, MCC is the largest post-secondary institution in Nebraska.
MCC offers more than 100 one- and two-year career programs in business administration, computer and office technologies, culinary arts, industrial and construction technologies, nursing and allied health, social sciences and services, and visual and electronic technologies, as well as academic transfer programs. General support courses, classes for business and industry and continuing education courses also are important parts of the college´s service to the community.
The college began in 1971, when the Nebraska State Legislature consolidated eight technical community college areas into six for about 2000 employees all across . Metropolitan Technical Community College's first campus, a former warehouse at 132nd and I streets, offered 46 programs and had a total student population of 1,059. Within four years, the Fort Omaha, South Omaha and Elkhorn Valley campuses were established. In the 1980s, the college began offering credit courses at Offutt Air Force Base and the Omaha Correctional Center, and services to Dodge County residents increased with the opening of the Fremont Center in a leased location. By fall 1988, college enrollment had grown to 6,630 students.
In 1992, the Nebraska Legislature changed the college's name to Metropolitan Community College. The following year, the Sarpy County Center opened in Brentwood Crossing Center in La Vista; the new Sarpy Center and public library opened in 1999.
By 2003, credit enrollment at the college totaled 23,623 students, making it the second largest post-secondary institution in Nebraska. As enrollment continued to grow at a record level, expanded physical facilities followed. Four new or renovated sites opened in 2007: the Applied Technology Center, the renovated Elkhorn Valley Campus, the new Fremont Area Center location and the South Omaha Connector Building.
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